Web Design Seminar - Synopsis

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You already know how to use computers. Now you want to learn to design and build a Web site. This seminar is for you.

It uses

• lecture
• example
• live demonstration
• question and answer

format to offer a broad overview of all aspects of Web site design, construction and installation. The seminar also covers reasons for having a site and site promotion.

1. (9:30 - 11:00) Preliminaries
   The Internet, the "World Wide Web", hypertext, URL, HTTP, HTML, servers, clients, domains, Internet service providers, Internet presence providers, portals, ASP, XML ..
   
   
2. (11:00 - 11:15) Coffee/tea
   
   
3. (11:15 - 12:45) Design
   
   
   1. Goals, process, principles, affordances, site architecture generations, types of sites, styles & fashions ..
   2. Contents: writing for the Web ..
   3. Presentation: visual language, layout, type, graphics, colour, animation, sound ..
   4. Interaction: navigation, image maps, frames, forms, rollovers, scripts ..
      
      
4. (12:45 - 1:45) Lunch
   
   
5. (1:45 - 3:15) Technology
   Browsers, editors, Web servers, formatting with tables and layers, layers, file formats and plug-ins, vector graphics, java, javascript, cgi ..
   
   
6. (3:15 - 3:30) Coffee/tea
   
   
7. (3:30 - 5:00) Analysis
   Optimisation, site installation and management, search engines and site promotion, access statistics, future developments ..
   

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